Technical architectures of Windows Vista and Windows 7

¶ … Microsoft Windows 7 and Windows Vista

Operating Systems Research Assignment

The differences between Microsoft Windows Vista operating system to Windows 7.0 is the intent of this paper, with a technical and features-based discussion and analysis forming the foundation of the analysis. Microsoft has only once mentioned Microsoft Windows 7, and that was during their developer conference this year. From the limited information with regard to its introduction, the launch date has tentatively been projected as December, 2009 or 2010. Industry press (Arar, 2008) report that internally, Microsoft developers want Vista to be perceived as the interim release of their desktop operating system, with Windows 7 being the next flagship, instead of Vista being a full-scale, robust operating system in its own right. As Microsoft is a highly engineering-centric company, the introduction of the MinWin kernel architecture in Windows 7 is expected to deliver significant performance gains on parallel processing laptops, PCs and servers, as is the multi-threading planned for both 32- and 64-bit versions of Windows 7.

Abstract

Comparing Technical Architectures of Windows Vista vs. Windows 7

Impact of Operating System Architectural Differences on Features